Re: "You're not going to learn how to program in BASIC any more"

[Will Leshner <will at haranbanjo dot com>]

On Sep 30, 2005, at 11:22 AM, Brad Hutchings wrote:

> My bet is that Will was a CS major. This is the kind of trivia that  
> makes a good quiz question in a lower division "programming" class.  
> But, as we now have operating systems that keep programmer mistakes  
> with this stuff from hurting the whole system, having a real  
> understanding of what's going on is probably a waste of most  
> developer's time.

Ah, well I was a CS major. But I *never* took a programming class.  
Such a thing strikes me as a supreme waste of time.
When talking about C, though, this kind of thing isn't just trivia.  
It is an essential fact about the way the language works. If you  
didn't know it, you couldn't use the language effectively. It is like  
not understanding why this code only creates one Date object in  
REALbasic:
dim d1, d2 as Date

d1 = new Date
d2 = d1

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